If Day 2 of writing my NaNoWriMo novel might be considered to be my current peak for writing, the last three days have been a right trough. I’ve been incredibly sick over the past few days, so much so that I’ve not been able to go to work, or pick up my daughter from school.
While desensitised from the world with a raft of pain medication, I still stumbled through the daze of writing, however. The work written has got to be as implausible as the cloud which hung over my head most of the time – when I wasn’t sleeping in reality – but on Tuesday I managed 2000 words, just; on Wednesday I managed another 2000, and today I’d added another 3000.
I’ll put the secret to my drug-induced success to promises of rewards for myself. In the last few days, the simple promise to let me put down the laptop, and crawl into bed to sleep is what worked for me. I also allowed myself the creativity, when a little more awake, to continue with designing up a non-fiction book I’m working on (not part of NaNoWriMo). For designing which is basically playing with colour and shapes, I could have turned also to my own scrapbooking hobby, but was a little too weak to think about propping myself up at a larger desk. So, I continued with the ebook I’m working on, and this became the carrot which helped me through the soup that was my Pod Novel II in NaNoWriMo this week.
Total wordcount – 18922
Morale – a 4 out of 10
Total Scene count – six (one per day).
So, I’m still going, but won’t make you endure looking at me with another vlog of the day. I’m still blogging in bed today, but will hopefully return to the world by tomorrow, Friday. I have hope that Week 2 of NaNoWriMo will see a bursted effort to get more of the novel completed. Drifting along at a painful 2000 words per day is just not how I normally operate.
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